A big thank you to all of the LIS Student volunteers who helped at the MLIS booth at the ILF Annual Conference this month! Here is a photo of our fun group of MLIS student volunteers alongside our Graduate Recruiter, Dennis Sullivan:

And, our very own Mahasin Ameen, Associate Faculty with MLIS, was one of the featured speakers at the conference. Mahasin’s topic for her discussion was on Objective Librarianship: Navigating Information Literacy in the Age of Misinformation. way to go Mahasin!

Additionally, we had two students who received awards at the ILF Awards Reception this year.

Sylvia Burlock – Sue Marsh Weller Memorial Scholarship

The scholarship honors a student who will work with children and youths.

Preet Gil – William Gresh Memorial Scholarship

This scholarship gives funding to the recipient for education certification in Library Media Services.

For more information on these scholarship opportunities with ILF, please click here to view more information.

What an eventful year Luddy MLIS Indianapolis had a t the Indiana Library Federation Conference. Way to go!

Congrats, Dr. Kim!

Here is a short abstract, but to access the full article, please click here.

Within engineering education, informal, out-of-school making experiences and parent–child interactions within home environments are both considered as a promising context for the development of engineering discourse and practices. However, less is known about how parents support children’s engagement in engineering learning, particularly when they are foregrounded with making that use materials and technologies that can introduce sources of uncertainty. To understand both the opportunities and uncertainties of centering making within parent–child engineering learning experiences, this study examines how parents’ use of epistemic supports differ between engineering design tasks with technology and engineering design tasks without technology, and within the different phases in the engineering design process. The study further investigates how parents exhibit epistemic uncertainties differently between engineering design tasks. Building on the notion of guided participation to frame engineering learning and making as co-constructed through multiple situated interactions, this study demonstrates that: (a) parents are skilled knowledge practitioners for their children’s engagement of engineering learning through the use of various epistemic supports; (b) the presence of technology in the engineering design tasks prompt different types of epistemic practices and engineering design phases; (c) opportunities and tensions co-emerge when parents experience epistemic uncertainty about STEM concepts or troubleshooting during engineering design tasks with technology. We discuss implications for the design of engineering design tasks within home environments that extend the use of parents’ epistemic supports.

Here is a quick abstract of the article, but please click here to access the full article.

Abstract

Library and information science (LIS) and labor unions have a long history of partnership in the United States of America (U.S.A.).  Since the early days of libraries, they have supported labor unions through providing access to computers, Internet access, labor-focused displays and programming, and materials that support workers. Labor unions have played a large role in supporting library workers through unionized staff, increasing library wages, worker safety and protection, and protecting against unsafe labor practices. Both groups shared similar goals until a shift was seen in the late twentieth century. In recent years, the partnership between libraries and unions has weakened through legislation. With law changes that effectively made every state in the U.S.A. a right-to-work state, there is a greater importance on libraries and labor unions renewing their partnership and focus to ensure workers inside and outside of libraries have their best interests protected. Labor education in LIS programs is lacking and could be better integrated into the LIS graduate program curriculum. This article looks at the historical work between libraries and labor unions with a turn toward how these two groups can work together going forward to restrengthen the partnership in today’s economic and political landscape.

• Prerequisites: None
• Delivery: On-Campus

This course reviews data practices in the social sciences. Students examine geospatial data sources, management, and analytical tools for the social sciences. Additionally, students explore newly developing geospatial technologies and analytical practices, including data visualization and big data methods for the social sciences, and ethical and policy considerations.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and evaluate the role social science data in academia, government, industry, and other organizations.
2. Summarize emerging data practices in the social sciences.
3. Analyze and evaluate best practices for data management in the social sciences.
4. Analyze and evaluate geospatial tools, technologies, and data analytic practices in the social sciences.
5. Create geospatial data analysis plans for social science data.

Please join us virtually for our November speaker, the last speaker for fall 2023. Students, alumni, and the broader LIS community are welcome to attend all speaker series events.

Norton-Wisla is the Community Outreach Archivist at Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) and Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). She’s also a volunteer with the Society of American Archivists Native American Archives Section to support the Indigenizing Archival Training, a pilot program funded by the Mellon Foundation.

When/where: November 29, 7:00 p.m. EST via zoom

Registration and more info: https://events.iu.edu/informaticsiupui/event/1077910-lis-industry-speaker-series-lotus-norton-wisla

All speaker sessions are recorded. You may view each semester’s lineup and follow a link to recordings of past speaker sessions from our series page: https://luddy.iupui.edu/events/lis-speaker-series/
Spring 2024 speakers will be scheduled soon!

• This program has been approved for 1 LEU (Library Education Unit) through the Indiana State Library. Please reference their continuing education site and approved providers page for self-documentation guidance and more information.